I couldn't get very far in the game. I found the menu too confusing to navigate, which made difficult for me to get into the game and understand its systems. I like the premise though.
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Thanks for the feedback. For now I have added a guide to the jam version to the main game page but forgot to add it to this page too:
Can unlock a mana harvestor and then click/wait until you can get the haste spell next gives a significant boost to mana gains and removes the need to click or wait for long. All 3 spells spells cost 1111 mana and $111 to unlock, they are all worth unlocking early.
While waiting around for visitors to arive outside, can click to bless them for bonuses in the next phase. Unlock bless all spell to bless all.
Can clean all the trash doesn't currently cost an action but maybe it should. Hiring a janitor automates trash cleanup. No need to hire more than 1 until after upgrading church size, which is the first major goal and unlikely to be unlocked on the first cycle unless you get both a well optimized and lucky run.
Need a tiny bit of mana to build pews.
Faith is more of an endgame / prestige mechanic. It carries over between prestige cycles and every 10k faith gives +$1 from offering plate, and you get +1 faith per follower and +1 faith per cultist every 10 seconds. Other current prestige mechanics are that each eclipse the total number of days increases by +1 up to a max of 42 days, starting debt decreases by $2000 per cycle to a max lowest of $42k
Don't worry about suspicion right now because it's a cut scope feature that currently only makes you paranoid. Meaning after you unlock all pews for your church size, no reason not to stage a miracle each day. Also, never do eclipse drill and quiet vigil in the current version are endgame prestige features cut in the jam version for scope. Don't overthink the dusk phase, just click each of the 3 buttons in order from top down. Conduct service, Perform Concert, then PassOffering Plate, in that order.
BGM should kick in each day during the concert if not muted. Sometimes there is a glitch i wasn't able to patch in time not sure what is causing it that makes the audio permamuted but can fix by saving your game, refreshing the page, and then loading the game.